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Elena Michaels is the world’s only female werewolf. And she’s tired of it. Tired of a life spent hiding and protecting, a life where her most important job is hunting down rogue werewolves. Tired of a world that not only accepts the worst in her–her temper, her violence–but requires it. Worst of all, she realizes she’s growing content with that life, with being that person.
So she left the Pack and returned to Toronto where she’s trying to live as a human. When the Pack leader calls asking for her help fighting a sudden uprising, she only agrees because she owes him. Once this is over, she’ll be squared with the Pack and free to live life as a human. Which is what she wants. Really.
My Review
Just re-read this book for the umpeenth time! I love and adore this series and Clay and Elena are one of my very favourite couples in the series. Throughout the book anyone knew to the series would be forgiven for thinking the worst of Clayton. Why? Simple, the narration is purely from Elena's point of view and throughout the book we're getting her thoughts on everyone, but at the same time we're also seeing what happens and what's said so reading between the lines you learn that what Elena thinks is not the actual truth. She wants Clay to be the bad guy so she can blame all her own flaws on him and the bite rather then live up the truth that the flaws are her own and were very much there before the bite. She wants to believe that Jeremy can't really care about her for her cause she can't believe that anyone as good as Jeremy could care about someone as damaged as her (quick note, that's care about her in a platonic way not romantic! Jeremy is very much a father figure to Elena!).
She's running from pack life not because it's bad persay but because of her own stubborness. She didn't choose to be bitten and turned therefore she'll fight that life for no other reason then she didn't choose it, despite the fact that regardless what she tries to force herself to think and belive, the life makes her happy.She loves Clay and he's the only man for her but she continues to delude her self otherwise til the very end when she rescues him and finally realises she's not getting him back for the pack but for herself.
I love Kelley's writing style throughout, how she develops the characters and draws you in to the story. There is a lot of humour in Kelley's writing to temper the serious side of the story! The banter between the characters and the lines they use make you laugh, like Nick's line to Elena when they find the shreds of hers and Clayton's clothes in the forest 'Wild dogs? or just Clayton?'. I was always a Clay fan, even when it was the first time I read it, cause I could see the differences between what she thought and said and what we seen him say and do. I could also see how she was only truly herself around him and the pack and they never judged her for it or left her. They accepted her for who she was. That was never the case with Philip. She was hiding a big part of herself and I'm not referring to her being a werwolf. She was modifying her behaviour, her temper, her likes and preferences, everything for Philip, she was presenting a false persona to him that had her subpressing a lot of herself. She wouldn't even make a sarcastic comment around Philip cause he wouldn't approve.
I was happiest when she realised that she could have her dreams with the pack and didn't need to deny herself. She didn't need to pretend to be someone she wasn't to have those dreams. She did however go through hell and back to realise it and I wonder if those mutts hadn't chosen to revolt and attack the pack, how long would it have took her to realise the truth and how deep in the lie would she have been before she realised it could never work and she could never truly be happy lying to herself and everyone around her?
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